Only the Office of Web Communication grants privileges in the ذكذكتسئµ University content management system (CMS).
The department bases a user's permissions and privileges on his or her role for a set of web pages. Roles are listed as they currently pertain to the Office of Web Communication and CMS users university-wide.
Web Content System Administrator: This position reports to the director of the Office of Web Communication. It provides user support and training in the use of the CMS for university offices and support for branding of other university software systems.
Digital Communications Coordinator: This position reports to the director of the Office of Web Communication. It provides support for LU Marketplace, web forms and university events.
Digital Content Editor: This position reports to the director of the Office of Web Communication. It provides support for content creation and editing, web analytics and quality assurance.
Web Developer: This position is housed in Information Technology. It provides dedicated support to projects and initiatives devised by the Office of Web Communication.
Departmental Web Liaison: These positions are housed in colleges or large pisions and are highly trained in the CMS. Typically, they also have publishing privileges. They may provide support to contributors (see below) who report to the respective college or pision.
Publisher: These positions are housed in upper admistrative offices. They edit web content and have publishing privileges in the CMS.
Contributor: These positions are housed in smaller administrative and academic departments. They edit web content but do not have publishing privileges in the CMS.
Site Owner: The dean of a college, chair of a department, head of a division or director of an area represented by a site or group of pages. The site owner may or may not be a CMS user but is ultimately responsible for the content of the site.
Every department in the university shall designate a person as web page editor and a second, backup editor for the department. The Office of Web Communication will not serve as editors for inpidual department web pages.
The Office of Web Communication will grant discretional HTML access on an as-needed basis. If a user makes changes to a page that conflict with the approved template design, HTML access will be removed. Training is required in order to receive access to the CMS.
To receive or change privileges in the CMS, a user must complete a support request form at lamar.edu/webcomm.